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"You don't like Walther's Calvinism?
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Faith Is Not the Opposite of Grace

The Book of Concord

17] 3. That by His Holy Ghost, through the Word, when it is preached, heard, and pondered, He will be efficacious and active in us, convert hearts to true repentance, and preserve them in the true faith.

18] 4. That He will justify all those who in true repentance receive Christ by a true faith, and will receive them into grace, the adoption of sons, and the inheritance of eternal life. FC, SD, XI

GJ - The Quia Marias posture about their adherence to the Book of Concord, but their hearts and souls are pledged to the Calvinistic, Pietistic, rationalistic mutterings of CFW Walther.

They pit grace against faith, but the Quia Marias do not understand either one, so they copy and paste from Pieper, who was selected - not elected - to parrot Walther.

Sigmund Freud set up his disciples the same way. For that reason, no one is allowed honest research about Freud and his quack theories. They guard his archives and his myth - like a shrine.